| Course Objective |
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| Course Description |
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| Course Schedule |
Course Schedule
Week
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Date
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Topic
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Required Reading
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1
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Feb 19
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Introduction
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2
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26
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Gender and Media (I) —Advertisement Industry
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Kilbourne, Deadly Persuasion
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3
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March 5
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Gender and Media (II)—Paintings as Examples
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Berger, Ways of Seeing
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4
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12
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Media, Stardom, and the Faustian Pact
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McCurdy, I’m Glad My Mom Died
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5
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19
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Media, Visual Entertainment, and the Showmanship
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Postman, Amusing Ourselves to Death
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6
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26
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Screening: Raise the Red Lantern (1991)
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7
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April 2
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Intercollegiate Activity
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No class
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8
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9
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Studying Week
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Self-Study
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9
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16
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Midterm Exam
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10
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23
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Media, Internet, and the Paradox of Knowledge
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Lynch, The Internet of Us
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11
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30
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Media and Adult Industry
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Dines, Pornland
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12
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May 7
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Materialism, the Pursuit of Happiness, and the Media’s Role
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Kasser, The High Price of Materialism
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13
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14
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Media Narratives, (Mis)conceptions of the Humanities, and Higher Education
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Deresiewicz, Excellent Sheep
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14
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21
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Media and Political Discourses
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Obama, Becoming
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15
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28
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People or Pixels? Reclaiming Humanity
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Turkle, Reclaiming Conversation
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16
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June 4
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Individual Supervision with the Instructor
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17
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11
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Final Presentation
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18
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18
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End of Semester
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No class
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| Teaching Methods |
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| Teaching Assistant |
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| Requirement/Grading |
Course Requirements
- Punctuality. Please come to class on time. Being late twice equals to one absence. Each unjustified absence will reduce 10 points from your final grade. After three absences in total, you will fail the course.
- Attendance and Participation. Read the assigned materials carefully and join the class activities vigorously.
- One Oral Presentation. A leading team of two or three members should choose a topic from the syllabus to make a PowerPoint presentation and provide the audience with food for thought. Its counterpart—the discussion group—, on the other hand, shall prepare two to three questions based on the leading team’s topic.
- Assignments. Weekly short reading assignment is mandatory. Please finish reading the assigned article before coming to the class.
- Course Packet. There will be a course packet covering all the reading materials for this course. Please get it from the NCCU photocopying center on B1樂活館.
N.B. To facilitate your learning and allow me to observe your reading progress, it is essential that you secure a copy of the course packet.
Grading Policy
- Attendance 10%
- One Oral Presentation 25%
- Midterm exam 25%
- Final presentation 40%
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| Textbook & Reference |
References
- Berger, John. Ways of Seeing. BBC and Penguin Books, 1972.
- Deresiewicz, William. Excellent Sheep: The Miseducation of the American Elite and the Way to a Meaningful Life. Free Press, 2015.
- Dines, Gail. Porland: How Porn Has Hijacked Our Sexuality. Beacon Press, 2009.
- Kasser, Tim. The High Price of Materialism. Bradford Book, 2003.
- Kilbourne, Jean. Deadly Persuasion: Why Women and Girls Must Fight the Addictive Power of Advertising. Free Press, 1999.
- Lynch, Michael Patrick. The Internet of Us: Knowing More and Understanding Less in the Age of Big Data. Liveright, 2017.
- McCurdy, Jennette. I’m Glad My Mom Died. Simon and Schuster, 2022.
- Obama, Michelle. Becoming. Crown, 2018.
- Postman, Neil. Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business. Penguin Books, 1985.
- Raised the Red Lantern. Directed by Zhang Yimou, Era International / China Film Group Corporation, 1991.
- Turkle, Sherry. Reclaiming Conversation: The Power of Talk in a Digital Age. Penguin Books, 2016.
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